Live Auction 7893Old Master & Early British Drawings & Watercolours
Abate Stefano Chiereghin (Chioggia 1745-1820)
Lot 86

Abate Stefano Chiereghin (Chioggia 1745-1820)

A form of Adriatic algae (Conferva Künhans)

Closed6 December 2012

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GBP 3,000

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Abate Stefano Chiereghin (Chioggia 1745-1820)
A form of Adriatic algae (Conferva Künhans)
signed and inscribed 'Conferva Künhans Questa nuova specie di Conferva indigena del Golfo Adriatico Bartolommeo Bottari la consacra al dotto Amico il Sig.r Giacomo Künhans in segno di stima, ed Amicizia. Abb. Stephanus Chiereghinus Hist. Nat. Cultor delineavit', and with number '27'
traces of black chalk, pen and brown ink, watermark fragmentary fleur-de-lys
5 7/8 x 8½ in. (15 x 21.6 cm.); and Rubbings of leaves, by Andrea Heuber, signed and dated 'Andrea Heuber di Dresda. Venezia li '. Giugno. 1779.' and with number '9' (2)

Theophil Friedrich Jakob Künhans, Venice.

Specialist note

Bartolommeo Bottari, like Stefano Chiereghin, was born in Chioggia and after studying medicine at Padua returned to his home town where, like Chiereghin, he became part of the group of natural scientists who explored the marine biology of the Adriatic. He had a large personal collection of marine specimens and his gift to Jacob Künhans was Chiereghin's drawing of a newly-discovered species of Adriatic algae, which Bottari had named after Künhans.